AUCKLAND (NEW ZEALAND)- A group of friends fishing off Auckland’s Waiheke Island last sunday spotted a 3m-long bronze whaler shark about 50 meters off shore. The bronze whaler was seen in Matiatia Bay while the fishermen were filleting snapper on the back of a 4.7m runabout at the end ofContinue Reading
CANCUN (MEXICO)- Divers have rescued a 10 meter long pregnant whale shark which was caught in thick rope about 30 meters below the surface off the coast of Mexico. The pregnant whale shark had got wrapped in a thick rope which had to be cut off by the divers whoContinue Reading
COTTLESTOE BEACH (AUSTRALIA)- It is believed that a 64-year old swimmer at Western Australia’s Cottesloe Beach who went missing last year October was attacked by a great white shark. A coronial inquest on his suspected death was done this week. The 64-year old man from Mosman Park disappeared on OctoberContinue Reading
HONOLULU (HAWAII)- A 61-year old man from Oregan, USA, was bitten on the leg by a tiger shark last week in off Kihei, Hawaii. He was the fourth victim of shark bites in the past few weeks in Hawaiian waters. Hawaiian experts are still guessing why there have been soContinue Reading
RAJA AMPAT (INDONESIA)- In 2005 conservationists and local villagers in the remote Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat worked together to create the Misool Eco Resort and Conservation Center, establishing a 165-square-mile “No-Take Zone” that banned fishing. These faraway islands in Western Papua, regarded by many marine experts as having theContinue Reading
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)- Finally shark finning is complety banned from European waters. The European parliament last Thursday called a definitive halt to the long contested practice of fishermen slicing off fins and throwing the live mutilated sharks overboard to drown. Shark finning was prohibited by the EU already in 2003 butContinue Reading
PERTH (AUSTRALIA)- Is tossing dead sheep into the ocean the reason for the exceptional high number of shark attacks off the coast of Western Australia this past year? Concerned conservationists have called for more research on this potential link between attacks on humans and dead sheep thrown into the oceanContinue Reading